CVE-2009-3622
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (5.83%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in wp-trackback.php in WordPress before 2.8.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and server hang) via a long title parameter in conjunction with a charset parameter composed of many comma-separated "UTF-8" substrings, related to the mb_convert_encoding function in PHP.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 5.83% probability · 93th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-310
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phpsBroken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37088Third Party Advisory
- http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/59077Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://codes.zerial.org/php/wp-trackbacks_dos.phpsBroken Link
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125612393329041&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125614592004825&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rooibo.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/agujero-de-seguridad-en-wordpress/Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Oct/263Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37088Third Party Advisory
- http://security-sh3ll.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordpress-resource-exhaustion-denial-of.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023072Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/59077Broken Link
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2986Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.